Have y'ever noticed...

[Exploiter007]

...that after you've had your Alembic for several months, you just don't want to pick up any of your other basses, like, ever again?  For reals.  My P-bass, as nice as it is for a P-bass, now feels like an ancient, unwieldy toy that has no business being in the same vicinity as my Alembic.  Snobbery?  Perhaps, but I'd rather think I've finally seen the light. 

[mavnet]

Every now and then i'll pick up one of my other basses and play it for a while. Sometimes for a week or two or three. Then I pick one of my Alembics back up and it's like coming home. Every finger feels welcomed back. I apologize for cheating, and promise to be a good boy again.

[David Houck]

I've played nothing but Alembic since I got my first one in 1996.

[gtrguy]

I play em all; BC Rich, P bass, Stingrays, TRB-JP, Yamaha BX-1, Ibanez. I love them all as well!

[edwardofhuncote]

As I posted elsewhere recently, I can and do appreciate playing other nice basses too, but playing an Alembic was quite a game-changer... there's really nothing quite like them.   

[StefanieJones]

I haven't picked up the P bass since I got my Alembic. I just have no reason. Maybe at a show sometime, I'll use it for a song just to show it off. But my fingers and ears like my Alembic. I'd like to save for an old Series now.

[jacko]

I'm possibly in a different situation. I only got my first Alembic when I switched to 5 strings which I now play exclusively.  I don't have any non-alembic five strings so I don't play my old instruments. Interestingly, since I bought my double bass (again a fiver) I never touch my NS EUB.

Graeme

[jazzyvee]

I've gone the other way Jacko, I bought a double bass to learn on about 4 or 5 years ago and never found had the time to really learn to play it. Now I've replaced it with a Classico, had my first lesson and it's like being a teenager again with your first instrument. I'm only learning the G major scale on it and a chromatic scale from low E to top G but I'm on it almost all the time so even my alembic basses are feeling slightly neglected.

[hammer]

My experience was a little different but the outcome similar. After playing a variety of fretted Alembic basses I came in need of a fretless for a current project.  I purchased a very nice Rob Allen 5-string Mb-2 but just couldn't get used to playing it because it feels like a toy. I don't think it weights more that 5-6 pounds. The sound is okay with a Fishman piezo pickup and preamp but it doesn't sound or play like an Alembic.  I subsequently purchased a Series I fretless that makes all the difference in the world.  Ive played it for six months or so now and the Allen hasn't seen the light of day. However, the Series is headed back to Alembic for a refurbish so now I'm back trying to get used to the Rob Allen all over again.

[the_home]

I play both my Alembic 5s regularly, but not exclusively. I also have a Modulus Q5 in regular rotation.

Before I moved to playing 5s, and before I owned any Alembics my Modulus Q4 was unquestionably my #1. That long relationship keeps a Modulus Q in play for me.